Why the gender gap doomed Hillary Clinton
Why the gender gap doomed Hillary Clinton
- November 9, 2016
- Michael Tesler, poli sci, via The Washington Post, Nov. 9, 2016
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Michael Tesler, associate professor of political science at UC Irvine, [writes:] There were countless stories this campaign about Donald Trump’s ostensibly insurmountable gender gap. ... After all, several surveys as recently as a few weeks ago showed Trump losing female voters by an average of 20 percentage points – a record deficit that would have been virtually impossible to overcome if it had held. But, of course, female voters did not provide Hillary Clinton with such a decisive victory.
For the full story, please visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/11/09/why-the-gender-gap-doomed-hillary-clinton/.
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